Visible-card system



' Oct. 13, 1925.

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useful Visible-GardSystem, of which the following is a specification.

In a. copending application, Serial No. 412,855, filed Sept. 25, 1920,of which the present application is a division, I have described andbroadly claimed a novel construction of a visible card system whichoccupies a minimum of space which can be more economically manufacturedthan the card systems now in use.

It further comprehends a novel construction of cards which can bereadily inserted into and removed from the filing unit whenever desired,the necessity of employing card holders being dispensed with.

Other novel features of construction and advantage will hereinafter morefully appear in the detailed description and the appended claims.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I have shown in theaccompanying drawing a typical embodiment thereof which is at presentpreferred by me since this em bodiment will be found in practice to givesatisfactory and reliable results. It is, however, to be understood thatthe various instrumentalities of which my invention con sists can bevariously arranged and organized and that my invention is not limited tothe precise arrangement and organization of these instrumentalities asherein shown and described.

Figure 1 represents, in perspective, a visible card system, embodying myinvention.

Figure 2 represents a top plan view of an index blank.

Figure 8 represents a top plan view of an index formed from a blank seenin Figure 2.

Figure 4 represents an end elevation of the index seen in Figure 3.

Figure 5 represents, in end elevation, a plurality of the indexes inassembled position and in interlocked relationship.

Figure 6 representsa top plan view of a plurality of card index blanksbefore they have been separated,

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A... R NGLER.,, a citizen ofitherUnited. States, residing at;Philadelphia, county... of Philadelphia, State; of Pennsylvania, haveinnented. anew a d;

i s t0 d ia lisau 1 designates. a. visiblezzoarqtsystem, emb dying myinvention, which, is; provided, with ame or; panel;2;.preferablyyformedr from; a,

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grooves 4e." 5'designates the cards or indexes which are formed from theblank 6 by the bending of the blank. The blank 6 is provided with a pairof weakened lines 7 extending laterally across it in spaced relationshipand preferably in parallelism thereby forming a terminal tab 8, adownwardly extending fold 9 with a downwardly extending flap 10. men theblank is folded on the weakened lines an upper pocket 11 is formed and alower pocket 12. The downwardly extending flap 10 preferably has itsends cut away on an incline, as indicated at 13. The blank is of suchlength that when folded its ends 14; are adapted to slide in and bereceived in the grooves 4 of the panel 3. The index strips 5, see Figure5, interlock with each other when assembled so that when they are in thepanel they are in interlocked relationship and are properly secured inplace. The upper portion of the outer face of the upper terminal tabforms a recording portion to receive the filing indicia. It will be seenas in Figure 5 that when two index strips are assembled the lower tabwhich ex tends into the pocket 11 of the index tab beneath it determinesthe visibility of the recording portion.

In writing on the index strips on a typewriter, it is advantageous tofill them out before they have been separated into individual indexblanks. For this purpose a plurality of the index blanks are formed froma single sheet of material with the weakened lines 15 which enables theindex strips to be readily separated after the desired data has beenwritten in with a typewriter. They are then folded to form a card indexelement 5, as seen in Figure 3. The cards may be formed of sheetmaterial of any desired character and of any desired thickness.

It will now be apparent that I have devised a new and useful visiblecard sys-- ment of t e iaveeties sea t e t e"? i scription, and while Ihave, in the present instance, shown and described apreferred embodimentthereof which will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results,it is to be understood that this embodiment is susceptible ofmodification in various particulars without departing from the spirit orscope of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1; The herein described filing card having a double fold forming anupper and a lower terminal tab of substantially equal dimensions andextending in opposite directions, said upper terminal tab having aportion of its outer face forming a recording portion designed toreceive the filing in dicia and the width of said lower tab when twocards are assembled defining the visibility of such indicia.

2. A plurality of filing cards each having a double fold to form anupper and a lower terminal tab and an upwardly and a downwardly directedpocket, the upper tab having a recording portion, the tabs extending inopposite directions and being of substantially the same width wherebywhen the cards are assembled the upper ter-' minal tab will be receivedin the downwardly directed pocket of the filing card above it and thelower tab will be received in the upwardly extending pocket of thefiling card below it, said lower tab extending to the bottom of thepocket to define the visibility of the recording portion. 7

' WILLIAM A. RINGLER.

